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10/19/2003: "Shopping Frustrations"
OK,
I'll fill you in on the headaches I had yesterday. So I borrowed a big box truck to pick up all the stuff I need to finish the cottage. Make a Home Depot run and that's it, I'll have everything and then it's just a matter of installing it all.
But noooo, all of a sudden the one crucial piece that Home Depot used to stock is now a special order item! I found that out only after the second store I went to and 4 hours later.
But I did get the following-
- vanity, with countertop/sink
- Delta faucet for above
- good quality fiberglass walls for the shower
- toilet
- speedy valves, supplies, and trap for sink
- flange, wax gasket, speedy valve and supply for toilet
- medicine cabinet
- strip light for above medicine cabinet
- 3 pre-hung doors (closet, boiler room, and bathroom doors)
- nice Schlage locksets for those doors
- moulding kits for all three doors
- base moulding for the whole place
- paint for the walls and moulding (cracked wheat is the color, goes nicely with the tiles)
- carpet and padding
- a thermostat
Earler in the day I went to the chimney store and bought a chimney with the roof flange, storm colllar and cap. Chris is supposed to come by today and install that for me, and also fix the roof on the shed and put in the roof boot for the plumbing vent.
So what am I missing you ask ? The glass walls and door kit for the shower! I can't find it anywhere...
And I need two 30 gallon LP gas hot water heaters. One is going to make domestic hot water and the other will be plumbed in as a mini-boiler, with a circulator pump, expansion tank, auto fill, check valve and combo gauge. I had spec'd out boilers, and the smallest one I could get was almost 5 times the size I needed, so for now I'm going to run a hot water heater as a boiler. Maybe down the road when I add a second room on to the building I'll upgrade to a boiler. A small boiler is also twice the price of two hot water heaters, and I just need to get it heated and finished so I can get a tenant in there, fast as possible.
So it's all coming together. The main thing now is to get the heat working before all the pipes freeze and to get it finished! George is coming to lay the carpet next Sunday. I hope to have all the walls painted and the bathroom fixtures installed by then. Working on it a few hours every night it should be possible.
OK, time to start my day, I will take pictures as I get stuff finshed and update the Garage Transformation page. This project was started last Thanksgiving, soo my goal is to have it done by this one. A year to build a small house in your spare time is not so bad. The main thing was I ran out of money and work was stopped all summer. Oh yeah, you don't want to know how much I dumped into this place so far. Probably close to 25 grand. So you see why I want to finish it and start getting a return...
K, later for now.
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